All-optical Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter with monolithically integrated DFB probe source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1349-1351

  Spiekman, L H ^a,b   Koren, U ^b   Chien, M D ^b   Miller, B I ^a,b   Wiesenfeld, J M ^a,c   Perino, J S ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Integrated optoelectronics; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

MACH ZEHNDER WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031258593     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623259     Document Type: Article

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